Lakers owner Jerry Buss has handed over control of the franchise to his son, Jim, who led the search for a new coach while his father and GM Mitch Kupchak assisted him, Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski reports. This development should be unsettling to Lakers fans, Wojnarowski writes, as Jim Buss is “the insecure and largely incapable son of an iconic owner, the older brother of Jeannie Buss, the far more competent sibling to run the franchise.”

Jim Buss’ decision to hire Mike Brown as coach, without so much as consulting Kobe Bryant, was his way of “pushing far from Phil Jackson, passing over longtime assistant Brian Shaw, and staking claim to his own guy,” according to the report.

Additionally, the Lakers will not entertain trade offers for center Andrew Bynum, who Jim Buss discovered for the Lakers, because Buss believes his own legacy as a Lakers executive will be tied directly to Bynum, Wojnarowski reports.

That may even include any forthcoming offers from the Magic for a sign-and-trade deal that would send Dwight Howard to Los Angeles, sources told Yahoo! Howard can become a free agent in the summer of 2012, and the Magic may be in a position next season similar to the predicament the Nuggets were in with Carmelo Anthony this past season: trade their star and get something valuable in return, or watch him walk away as a free agent and get nothing back. The Lakers are believed, by many NBA observers, to be Howard’s preferred destination.